MINNEAPOLIS, Min. — Brian Howard, 40, spent upwards of an hour fruitlessly explaining to his nephew that brain rot videos did not exist when he…
  • @[email protected]English
    0•4 days ago

    So satire doesn’t mean anything, humor is always empty, comedy has never been a tool of power, and all meaning must be free of fun?

    or can you just let someone post a thoughtful reply without putting them down?

    • onechrisn
      0•4 days ago

      @TimewornTraveler
      Ope! Too late. You became the butt of the joke. People without self introspection always making themselves the butt of the joke.
      Doubly so, because all the web sites you named from back in the day were as heavily monetized as they could have been at the time.

      @ZeroCool

      • @[email protected]English
        0•4 days ago

        Not sure who you think you’re replying to. I’m just jabbing at someone who thinks “Satire=No Thinking”, since that’s obviously such an absurd position that is ignorant of the history of satire in our cultures.

        Lacking introspection… you’re reading a lot into my post based on your own assumptions. I never mentioned any websites. There’s some introspection lacking on your part there too. I was wondering what joke you think you were making that I’m the butt of… then I got it. You’re only pretending to be an idiot, as a joke, right? You got me!